Raj Patra
Raj started yoga in Calcutta, India, at the age of seven at Ghosh Yoga College, established in 1923, by Bishnu Ghosh, younger brother of Sri Paramhansa Yogananda, the author of “Autobiography of a Yogi”. Yoga involved not only physical exercises but a prescription of lifestyle that helps cure ailments and improve quality of mental and physical connections. Raj's acute tonsillitis and allergies were cured through this and he continued his yoga education for the next ten years. There was a complete pause in his yoga practice after he arrived in the United States in 1995 and picked it up again about eight years ago.

With BS in Physics and in Mathematics and after twelve years of corporate jobs in various hi-tech industries as Program Manager and Management Consultant, Raj's yoga practice and yoga teaching is grounded by the fundamental belief that stress through the rat-race of material success is the biggest contributor to increasing health issues in the world. Yoga helps in not only re-balancing our lives, but also in raising an intellectual awareness that we are all connected beings living off of the same quantum mechanical resources. Raj and his wife, Kelly are both certified yoga teachers and dreams of a life where they do not have to rely on corporate careers for livelihood. HYfL is a step in that direction.

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